Reconsidering Eusebius

Eusebius (260-340), Bishop of Caesarea, one of the most important Church Fathers of late antiquity, has enjoyed and endured a roller-coaster reputation down the ages for both veracity and style. Here scholars identified only by name present their views. Among the topics are the promotion of the Constantinian agenda in his On the Feast of Pascha, school activity at Caesarea through the lens of the Martyrs, his role as educator in the context of the General Elementary Introduction, aesthetics and the politics of Christian architecture in his Panygyric on the Building of Churches, and Alexander Polyhistor's Peri Ioudaion and literary culture in republican Rome. Annotation c2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Sabrina Inowlocki, Ph.D. (2003), University of Brussels, is chercheur associe at the Centre interdisciplinaire d'etude des religions et de la laicite - CIERL, University of Brussels. She has published on Jewish Hellenistic literature and on Eusebius. Her publications include Eusebius and the Jewish Authors, His Citation Technique in an Apologetic Context (Brill 2006).Claudio Zamagni, Ph.D. (2003), University of Lausanne and E.P.H.E., Paris, is Lecturer at Geneva University. He has published a critical edition of Eusebius' "Gospel Questions and Answers" in the Sources Chretiennes series (Cerf, 2008)